Coding Engines in Participatory Social Housing Design-A Case to Revisit Pattern Languages

Bukovszki, ViktorAdv Bldg & Urban Design Ltd, Alkotas Ut 53, H-1123 Budapest, Hungary. (author)

QC 20210601
Participation has been touted as a critical instrument for both citizen empowerment and responsibility-sharing in sustainability. In architecture, participation allows for the progression of green building to sustainable habitation that integrates environmental, economic, and social dimensions. However, participation in practice rarely delegates meaningful decisions to marginalized groups and is mostly a one-sided process. This study seeks to investigate which factors of the participatory method afford both empowerment and behavioral change to a sustainable lifestyle in low-income groups. To do so, a case study of designing a social housing estate in Hungary is presented, where participatory design was used to codevelop a building that considers and adjusts to the sustainable lifestyle envisioned by the future residents. A coding engine based on the concept of pattern languages was developed that places conditions and experience of everyday activities at the center of design, translating them to spatial features. As a result, a focus group of social housing tenants and cohousing experts were able to define explicit shared spaces, allocate square meters to them, and articulate legible design criteria. Of the early-stage design decisions, 45% were made with or by the participants, and the bilateral process made it possible to convince the tenants to adopt a more sustainable habitation format.

Dóczi, GabriellaKTH,Resurser, energi och infrastruktur(Swepub:kth)u1heahmg (author)
Reith, AndrasAdv Bldg & Urban Design Ltd, Alkotas Ut 53, H-1123 Budapest, Hungary.;Univ Pecs, Res Grp BIM SKILL LAB, H-7624 Pecs, Hungary. (author)
Adv Bldg & Urban Design Ltd, Alkotas Ut 53, H-1123 Budapest, Hungary.Resurser, energi och infrastruktur (creator_code:org_t)

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